Party Time/Celebration Tickets - Harold Pinter Theatre

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The 'Pinter at the Pinter' season continues from December 20th - January 26th with Party Time, thebitterly amusing but scathing attack on the powerful and narcissistic super-rich elite, set up against the terrifying backdrop of brutal state oppression.

Harold Pinter's final play, Celebration is a totally irresistible comedy about the vulgarity of the nouveau riche, all set in a swanky West End restaurant. A fascinating evening of social satire that highlights the ostentatious materialism that engulfs elitists in modern day society.

The Jamie Lloyd Company proudly presents a season of Harold Pinter's one-act plays celebrating the legacy of the British writer to mark the 10th anniversary of his passing. This unique event will take place at the Harold Pinter Theatre from September 6th 2018 until February 23rd 2019, and promises to be an unmissable celebration of possibly the "most influential, provocative and poetic dramatist of his generation" (The Guardian).

The Harold Pinter Theatre, (formally called the Comedy Theatre) in London is a west end theatre and opened on Panton Street in the City Of Westminster on 15th October 1881, as the Royal Comedy Theatre. It was designed by Thomas Verity and built in just six months in painted stone and brick. By 1884 it was known as just the Comedy Theatre In the mid-1950s the theatre went under major reconstruction and re-opened in December 1955, the auditorium remains essentially the same as in 1881, with three tiers of horseshoe shaped balconies

In 1883, the successful operetta Falka had its London première at the Comedy Theatre, and in 1885, Erminie did the same. The theatre's reputation grew throughout World War I when Charles Blake Cochran and Andre Charlot presented their famous revue shows there. Famous actors who appeared here include Henry Daniell who played John Carlton in Secrets in September 1929.

The Comedy Theatre was notable for the role it played in overturning stage censorship by establishing the New Watergate Club in 1956, under producer Anthony Field. The outdated Theatre Act of 1943 still required scripts to be submitted for approval by the Lord Chamberlain's Office, however. formation of the club allowed plays that had been banned due to language or subject matter to be performed under 'club' conditions. The law was not revoked until 1968, The Harold Pinter Theatre is a part of the Ambassador Theatre Group and was Grade II listed by English Heritage in June 1972.